Interactives

- Nineteen men hijack four commercial airlines loaded with fuel for cross country flights, to carry out a terrorist attack on the United States orchestrated by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

-- 8:46 AM ET (approx) - American Airlines Flight 11 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The plane was piloted by plot leader Mohamed Atta.

-- 9:03 AM ET (approx) - United Airlines Flight 175 (traveling from Boston to Los Angeles) strikes the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The plane was piloted by hijacker Marwan al Shehhi.

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